Jackson Jambalaya

"What impact will President Donald Trump’s tariffs and Elon Musk’s DOGE layoffs and contract cancellations have on Mississippi? It’s too soon to tell, but the risks of major impacts are high."

"It’s too soon to tell, but the benefit of major impacts are high."
Fixed if for ya Fish. Mississippi is corrupt to the bone because its dependency of Federal cash that's likely not even needed....it's just been "arranged". If the U.S. Dept. of Education goes away, let's hope all the Federal Financial Aid does to. Then we'll see where Mississippi REALLY stands.

Eliminate the waste, and let's start over with what works, and what taxation is actually necessary - rather than "can benefit" someone.

Elon Musk needs to stay in his lane and get back to figuring out how to make starships and cars that don’t explode.

There should have been tariffs a long time ago. If we would have had honest politicians we would have had them from the start. We should charge the same tariff the other countries charge us. USAID should have been shut down long ago. I can see why democrats don't want it to end. Several politicians families were becoming rich from USAID. The Clinton's daughter had a big hand in the cookie jar. Just look at what she was paid for providing meals for the needy. What she was paid for one meal would keep any aid in Ms. full of food for a year. Obama was also sticking his hand in the cookie jar. He was being paid several million dollars each year. One of his daughters was right along with him to the tune of 1.5 million. They were not the only people doing it. Seems like most of the aid USAID was going to democrats and very little was making it to the people who needed it.

Are the majority of the people who actually pay income tax in Mississippi pushing to get rid of it? Or is this a solution without a problem?

I have family members who live in a major city in Texas, and their property taxes are outrageous.

Trump's policies are going to hit his voters the hardest. I wonder if all those red-state Trump voters who claim to "vote my wallet" will still vote their wallets in 2026.

Or will they twist and contort themselves to find a way to keep voting Republican with a straight face, because that's what they've been programmed to do.

Mississippi exports $14.5 billion a year. 76% of our businesses export. We import $21.8/billion. We import crude petroleum oils, petroleum bitumen, artificial limbs, and medical and science equipment.

Unfortunately, much of what we export is dependent on parts that are imported. This is one of the reasons why tariffs wars are dangerous.

Those we imposed tariffs know just as well as we do how to " return the favor". They know which products we need most from them.

We need to start using our common sense. We can't export medical equipment unless we get the medical equipment parts we need.

I'm all for us being as self-sufficient as possible but it was big business that wanted a " global economy" so they could get cheap labor. It did not happen overnight. The first industry lost was the textile industry. It first went South for cheaper labor and then to other countries. We were not smart enough like Great Britain to retain a sufficient textile industry and we even didn't know that sheep , like cows and chicken were important. We killed tobacco rather than finding other uses or markets.

The moral here is that politicians aren't economists . For reason's unknown , we no longer trust those who have spent their lives gaining knowledge and skills. We trust the politicians who think they know everything about everything because they learned to do two things well. They learned to be popular enough to get supporters who will bankroll them ( popularity is dependent on tell people what they want to hear rather than what they need to know and looking good and sounding good while they do it). Both parties succeeded in getting rich ( see what both have on hand). They pick the candidates to bankroll/ and sticking to the party platform is essential. They even flood a ticket with ringers they pay to weaken support for their opponents. They pick judges and they remove guardrails. Insider trading is alive and well again today as a result. We killed the once cheap television programming we had thinking we were protecting children from cable porn. Now we pay through the teeth just to watch television when every intelligent person and rich person knew small satellite dishes were just around the corner. We gave easier access to porn and we did it fooling Christians. Indeed, we made some preachers rich in the process.
We are let the barbarians in simply because they asked us to let them in with their promise that they really liked us and presented no threat. It's a pity. It's also now too late and by the time some of you get in, the damage cannot be undone. Other prosperous nations fell into the same trap.

@12:21 PM I am willing to pay more for stuff in order to deport the illegals, to cut off the flow of tax dollars to fun degenerate garbage pushed on kids, and finally, to owning the libs so hard you scream and run to your therapists to increase your Zoloft dosages!

We’ve got to move from a leftist government controlled economy back to what made America great, capitalism.

27 EU countries with well over 100 million more citizens than ours not being able to deal with Russia on their own pretty much tells us that their leftist system of government does not work. If it did, they would be steam-rolling Russia instead being the p___y’s they are, waiting on American tax payers to fix it for them.

The Bill Crawford’s of this world, like the know it all EU so-called leaders, have all of the answers. Spend, spend, spend, print, print, print, and let future generations pay for it.

@12:21, people like you have been a godsend to conservatives. You refuse to believe the average American doesn’t want the woke policies, open borders, reckless spending, weak foreign policy, etc. that have been forced on us the past four years. Your party is now leaderless and in disarray. Thank you - please keep it up and don’t change.

They begged for it, they didn’t even ask for a lube.

Politicians have many slush funds they can dip into. Notice how politicians nearly always get to be millionaires after they are elected. They sure do not make millions from what they are paid. Their is one slush fund that many do not know about. Many years ago we could see how much was in it but when it got large they stopped letting us know how much is in it. Just last year it grew by over 16 billion dollars. Either it got very large or they are draining it as fast as they can.

"I have family members who live in a major city in Texas, and their property taxes are outrageous."

People have to pay for government services, one way or another. If you eliminate the income tax you have to tax other things to make up the difference.

See under: "Free lunch", there is no such thing as a.......

America will be humming along soon.... like a starship.

12:37 proving once again that MAGAts will gladly eat shit if they think a liberal will have to smell their breath.

It's not fair to hold an economy against a president 60 days into office. There is almost nothing he can do short of war or something catastrophic to influence it to that degree. Usually it takes a budget or two to start taking effect, including tax hikes or tax cuts and those don't really affect the economy until a year or two after passage. I said the same thing when Obama was president.

A barrage of regulation or deregulation can affect the economy much more quickly.

Then there is always the FED who can cripple or raise it with interest rates. Need to get rid of the dual mandate.

My favorite little trick in the blame game was what Hannity pulled when Obama was president. We always use the U3 number. When BO assumed the purple, Hannity suddenly starts using U6 and shrieking how much worse unemployment suddenly was.

@12:27 what mississippi imports is billions in federal tax dollars stolen from more prosperous state. I say cut it all to zero and start over. In the highly transactional nature of the current administration, mississippi has to provide something of value to get something in return. We have little anyone wants unless it’s hogs, chickens, and folks living off the federal tit. So long suckers!

Bill “decimated”. Really ?

12:21...In Trump's first term my income went up and my net worth doubled. I'd like more of this "pain."

If you haven't read Crawford's column yet let me save you some time. It isn't about tariffs. It is more pro-Democrat Delbert Hosemann spam.